Posted on 06/03/2008 6:20:43 AM PDT by Graybeard58
BANJUL, Gambia — Authorities in Gambia have arrested two Spanish men for allegedly making ‘‘homosexual proposals’’ to taxi drivers, police said Monday.
The arrests come less than three weeks after Gambia’s president ordered homosexuals to leave the West African country and threatened in a nationally televised speech to ‘‘cut off the head’’ of anyone discovered to be gay.
The Spanish nationals were taken into custody Friday after the taxi drivers reported being solicited by them, police spokesman Sulayman Secka said. He declined to give further details on the incident or say when the men might be released.
‘‘They are helping the police in their investigation,’’ Secka said.
Homosexual sex is illegal in Gambia, where those convicted of consensual homosexual acts face jail terms of up to 14 years.
Controversy over homosexuality has been growing across Africa in recent years, with many countries toughening laws prohibiting homosexuality even as South Africa legalized gay marriage.
In his speech last month, President Yahya Jammeh also threatened to close down hotels that rent rooms to gays.
‘‘We are in a Muslim-dominated country and I will not and shall never accept such individuals in this country,’’ he said.
Jammeh’s statements were condemned by international gay rights activists but welcomed by Gambia’s Supreme Islamic Council, which said Jammeh had taken a ‘‘principled stand.’’
The queers in this country better hope that the party of appeasement doesn't win in November.
Liberals: Can we please stop worrying about Gay-bashing in the Muslim world and the coming Sharia law, and get back to blaming GEORGE BUSH?!
Something doesn’t smell right about this. I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing wasn’t concocted by either a taxi driver with a chip on his shoulder or government officials.
Maybe the taxi-driver interpreted “Take me to the Celine Dion Concert and hurry up!!!” as a homosexual proposal - I know I would.
Good for Gambia. Neither should homosexuals be allowed to perform their predatory disgusting acts on children. But hey, the transgenders having undergone genital mutilation must be accepted and exalted in the name of normalcy and tolerance.
Muslim hatred of gays isn’t an issue in this country (gays are focused on their Christian opponents here) but it is in Europe. Gay activists are very worried about the Muslims over there.
I wonder who’s going to win the forthcoming battle between the Death Cult and the “Alternative Lifestyle” crowd. They can not live together in the same country.
Maybe the solution is to give each one a separate country. Just keep them out of ours.
I wonder about this as well. My sister is gay and a die-hard dem. I used to think she was smart but apparently not smart enough to realize what the growing muslim presence in America will mean to her and her friends.
I wonder about this as well. My sister is gay and a die-hard dem. I used to think she was smart but apparently not smart enough to realize what the growing muslim presence in America will mean to her and her friends.
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